Aloha From Bamboo Ridge
PELE’S TEARS
Rachel Ana Brown
Published with Permission
“Bamboo Ridge: Journal of Hawai‘i Literature and Arts No. 91”
(Bamboo Ridge Press, 2007)
It hasn’t rained for four years.
Mom has one of her boyfriends
hook the bathtub drain to a pipe...
Bamboo Ridge – Treasures from Issue Number One
THE LADY AND THE FISHERMAN By Gary Tachiyama Every ulua has someone’s name on it some day I’ll find one with mine but just as he cast his pole, she folded the moon in half and stuffed it in the back pocket of her faded blue jeans and walked away on a ridge wave He....
“TOMOE AME”
Mavis Hara
Published with permission
by Bamboo Ridge Press (2007)
Forty-five years ago, when I was a child, my cousin Pam would always get a prize from the Tomoe Ame box that was better than the one...
Aloha From Bamboo Ridge
“EXPOUNDING THE DOUBTFUL POINTS”
Wing Tek Lum
Published with Permission
by Bamboo Ridge Press (1987)
LOCAL SENSIBILITIES
(Inspired by Frank Chin)
When I see a pineapple,
I do not think of an exotic fruit sliced in rings
to be served with ham,
more...
Aloha From Bamboo Ridge
“THE BOWL”
Marie Hara
Reprinted with Permission (2007)
My friend who runs a restaurant in Mänoa came back from Laos where he served for a month as a Buddhist priest. Billy did this after his uncle, head...
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